With virtually all Ontario’s corn crop still standing because of delayed maturity due to the wettest summer in memory, the 2017 hunting outlook was very much a question mark. To add to the uncertainty, the wild apple crop in much of the County was just about nonexistent. I had visions of deer staying between the…

North Glengarry, Ontario, 16 October 2012 The winter of 2011- 2012 wasn’t very hard on the woodpile or the whitetails. Total snow accumulation was barely four feet, and our coldest night only nudged the mercury to minus -24 F. So our deer herds didn’t have it very rough at all. And although we had a…

Well, so far our predictions are falling into place. With the relatively mild winter of 08-09, we had pretty normal mortality rates in the deer herds, so the local Bambi count looks good heading into August/September. The coyote and wolf populations seem to have taken a hit; we’ve had no where near the sightings that…

July 2nd, 2008 Well, the 2008 Ontario Hunting regulations are out and it looks like a good season for hunters in WMU 65. The Ministry has decided to kick off the bow season a bit early this year, and has graciously allowed us a four-day head start from the 1st until the 4th of October.…

(Reprinted with permission from The Landowner magazine.) Although the Christmas gift was nominally from my buddy, I suspect that his wife probably selected it as a symbol of shared suffering with my wife. It’s a wooden plaque with a lordly-looking whitetail buck wreathed in the message: “We Interrupt this Marriage to bring you Hunting Season”.…

Well, it’s the 1st of April, 2008, and Jim and I are starting to see some stress on the deer herds. The police shot a large doe that had been hit by a tractor-trailer just down the road and Jim and I showed up as next of kin to claim the body. Although she looked…

The winter of 2007 – 2008 will no doubt go down in the books as one of those “good old fashioned” winters. Eastern Ontario has seen snow accumulations that have not been recorded since the 1970’s, and although the temperatures to date have been relatively moderate (no sub-thirty nights), the heavy snowfall may yet take a…